Advocacy Organizations
- All Out"All Out is a global movement fighting for a world where NO ONE has to sacrifice their family, freedom, safety, or dignity because of who they are or who they love."
- GATE"We are an international organization working on gender identity, sex characteristics and, more broadly, on bodily diversity issues."
Academic Articles
- Synergies in health and human rights: a call to action to improve transgender health"Transgender people continue to face a range of challenges that deprive them of respect, opportunities, and dignity and have damaging effects on their mental and physical health and wellbeing... Moving forward, these health needs and vulnerabilities can be better addressed through improved understanding of the legal and social policies that promote harms and diminish the potential impact of health programmes."
- ‘#WontBeErased’: The effects of (de)pathologisation and (de)medicalisation on the legal capacity of trans* persons"A human rights movement towards depathologisation and demedicalisation of gender non-conformity is rapidly getting up steam in several parts of the world... It is argued that the present focus on trans* depathologisation and demedicalisation should only be the first step towards the full inclusion of all trans*persons in law and society."
Books in Fitzgerald Library
The Lives of Transgender People by Call Number: Lower Level 306.768 B41ISBN: 9780231143066Publication Date: 2011This book "discusses [the] results of a survey on gender development and identity-making among transsexual women, transsexual men, crossdressers, and genderqueer individuals...They discover that despite increasing recognition by the public of transgender individuals and a growing rights movement, these populations continue to face bias, violence, and social and economic disenfranchisement."
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Call Number: Lower Level 306.768 S92ISBN: 9781580056892Publication Date: 2017"This book covers the major movements, writings, and events that shape today's gender revolution. Chapters cover terms and concepts, the history of medicalization, transgender community formation, trans radicalism and social change movements, the turf wars of identity politics, and advances in civil rights."
Transforming Citizenships by Call Number: Lower Level 306.768 W51ISBN: 9781479832149Publication Date: 2013"This book engages the performativity of citizenship as it relates to transgender individuals and advocacy groups. Instead of reading the law as a set of self-executing discourses, the author takes up transgender rights claims as performative productions of complex legal subjectivities capable of queering accepted understandings of genders, sexualities, and the normative forces of the law."
The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights by Call Number: Main Level - New Book DisplayISBN: 9780472074013Publication Date: 2018"While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective political identity" is a recent construct. This book explains the growth of the transgender rights movement despite its marginalized status within the current political opportunity structure."
